#Brokenness

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Yield”

[Text ID: “you look like a broken porcelain cup / swept into a bag so it won’t / hurt anyone else.”]

[goldenpoet1]

I've been lying to myself. I told myself to move on, but my mind, body, and soul can't. For the first time in a long time, I felt reality reality of hugs, kisses, and true emotions that I thought were frozen, but I lost the one person God has chosen. The nightmare became vicious and ferocious. Destroying our emotions. We fell and become broken. I still feel the connection. Something my heart can't continue to reject. This is so depressing I lay empty and restless for losing the love that always kept me breathless.

[academic-vampire]

“As a child, I only wanted pure and innocent love. As an adult, I never received anything of the sort.”

-From one of my journal entries

[thepersonalwords]

Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently.

Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny

[loneberry]

--Mansur al-Hallaj (d. 922 CE)

[mournfulroses]

Hilda Doolittle, from Gods & Mortals: Modern Poems on Classics; "Eurydice,"

[soulinkpoetry]

We’re not really broken. We just haven’t reached that wholeness that lies underneath.

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[dreams-of-mutiny]

“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

― Christopher Poindexter

[poligraf]

And worse, there is a crack in everything that you can put together : physical objects, mental objects, constructions of any kind. But that’s where the light gets in, and that’s where the resurrection is and that’s where the return, that’s where the repentance is. It is with the confrontation, with the brokenness of things.

Leonard Cohen

[plantbasedmimi3]

Those who are benefiting from your past trauma will never encourage you to heal. Heal anyway.

[mythoughttherapy]

“And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

—Christopher Poindexter

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

When (God) wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to the end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.

Harry Ironside

[sagekjs21]

Random Bit of Advice #2

@pinestripe37Sometimes The type of help and healing that you have needed for so long can be found in a source that seems illogical to you. Intellect is meaningless. Normalcy is meaningless. Pride is meaningless. Even fairness and equality may become meaningless for a time. God's Will holds all of the meaning. When you are simply on the verge of breaking, God will provide you with someone that you can break against, someone that can see you shatter and help you pick up your fragments. Then you both hand them over to God, and He doesn't simply mend them; He creates something even stronger than what existed before. Doing something that seems to make no sense is sometimes the best solution. Bravery, humility, and the earnest desire to follow the Will of God are what matter most. Follow His leading. When you are nearly broken, listening to His instructions will produce healing. Following God's Will, even when it contradicts assumptions you've made about life, will ALWAYS provide more blessings than you could have ever imagined. Thank you, my friend.❤️

[quotelr]

Suddenly, he felt a tremendous stirring of hope inside his heart; it filled his whole body with its warmth. I may not be that much of a broken man, he thought to himself.

H. L. Balcomb

[undergodslove]

God is not looking for the powerful and the successful and those who are able communicators. Instead, He looks for the person who has a broken and contrite spirit. Those individuals, whether they are extroverted or introverted, humorous or melancholy, are regularly in the quiet place bowing before God’s Word with a trembling heart and seeking fresh enabling from the Holy Spirit. They have been brought to see that they did not make themselves, nor did they save themselves. They are totally dependent upon God’s grace (Isa. 66:2).

Alistair Begg